The only thing we have is each other.

- Lynne Stewart

If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.

- Lynne Stewart

Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

- Lynne Stewart

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

- Lynne Stewart

The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.

- Lynne Stewart

I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, d…

- Lynne Stewart

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some…

- Lynne Stewart

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they'…

- Lynne Stewart

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

- Lynne Stewart